Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… stretching hides, braiding sweetgrass, preparing ash strips, weaving baskets and, of course, socializing and playing games."

Abbe Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"They produced ash tool handles, canoes and paddles, and the ash baskets for the potato industry. With mechanization of logging and potato farming…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… a variety of wood, “…maple, birch, beach, (sic) ash, elm, basswood, pine, hemlock, fir, spruce, cedar with some oak on the highlands and hackmetack…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… for clams, pick sweet grass for baskets and split ash for containers. This practice continued into the 1930s and ‘40s, until it gradually died out."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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